The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.